This story has become a strong (repeating) narrative, or metamessage, in my life – coming to mind at particular crossroads between easy, straight paths and narrow windy ones. Seemingly simple points of decision making around how I spend my money and how I spend my time that can feel weighted with symbolic meaning. These are the resources I have, where do I invest them? Every day that we live is an opportunity to invest in where our hope lies, to build – with whatever we have – the world we wish we lived in. At times the pull to do what is easy, to do what is accepted and expected can be so strong…
“I have seen too many stars to let the darkness overwhelm me”
– Macrina Wiederkehr
“What in me is dark, illumine” – John Milton
(7 Sacred Pauses)
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